The agency says it's evaluating whether the segments complied with Russia's anti-extremism law. The BBC has insisted it strictly abides by Russian laws.

The Russian regulator launched a review of BBC operations last month after British broadcasting regulator Ofcom said Kremlin-funded television channel RT broke impartiality rules in its coverage of the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England.

Ofcom said it was considering "statutory sanctions" against RT that could range from a fine to a license suspension.

The United Nations is forecasting that the global economy will grow by around 3 percent in 2019 and 2020, but says waning support for multilateralism, escalating trade disputes, increasing debt and rising climate risks are clouding prospects.

Colombia is pressuring Cuba to turn over leaders of the South American nation's last remaining rebel group who had been on the island for peace talks that have been stifled by the bombing of a police academy that left 21 dead.

Venezuela plunged deeper into turmoil on Monday as security forces put down a pre-dawn uprising by national guardsmen that triggered violent street protests and the Supreme Court outlawed the opposition-controlled congress' defiant new leadership.